In Cross v. Bonded Adjustment Bureau, 55 Cal.Rptr.2d 801 (1996), judgment creditors sued a collection agency and their lawyer for breach of fiduciary relationship, breach of contract, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress for failure to take adequate steps to collect a judgment. The judgment creditors were owed in excess of $240,000 on a 1979 judgment. Upon the advice of the collection agency and a lawyer retained to enforce the judgment, the judgment creditors settled with the judgment debtor for $40,000. The judgment creditors later discovered that the collection agency and lawyer had failed to renew the judgment and a judgment lien both of which, absent renewal, expired in 1989, and that subsequent to expiration of the judgment lien on the real property, the judgment debtor conveyed the real property, thus leaving the judgment creditors without that valuable asset to satisfy their judgment. The appellate court reversed a trial court judgment that had dismissed the complaint.